Category: Start Up Stories
Have you heard about Kik Messanger? Probably you already use it, especially if you are a teenager. I would bet on that because this app is gaining momentum big time. Its registered users have reached about 240 million in no time and this number hasn’t stopped growing. The Canadian startup Kik Interactive, which is responsible for this new ‘unicorn’ in the mobile world, has become a $1 billion company because of the chat application. This number was determined by the 50 million investment made by Tencent for a share of Kik Interactive. The chat app is used extremely by youngsters,...
This is one amazing story about a man who took advantage of the whites-only scholarship at Boston University, that hit the media a few years ago. He created this discriminant policy into a gold mine and made thousands of dollars online with it. This is a story showing that anyone can start an online business with no money, just by finding a profitable niche. Here is his story… Back in 2006, some universities still offered scholarships only for whites. Daniel Kovach was one of the guys realizing that this could bring really big traffic to his site – www.scholarships-ar-us.org, which...
Domain Searching Services – PickyDomains.Com Do you want to use your talent to start making money? A great way to do this is by starting your own business. And this is how these guys have built a profitable enterprise. With the growing number of online entrepreneurs now looking for the perfect domain name, a specialized service for this is a great business idea. It may be really difficult to pick your perfect domain name. Not only because it is supposed to stay as your brand for years, but also because most of the cool names have been already registered by...
A mail from Santa… Think about the days when you were a kid. If you grew up in a Christian family, one of the greatest joys you might remember from your childhood would probably be Christmas and of course, Santa Claus. Kids just love Christmas, that’s a wonderful time of the year for them because of the family evenings, the presents they receive, end the positive emotion as a whole. And they truly believe in the little dwarfs that prepare the presents and in Santa, who gives them to the boys and girls that were good during the year… That...
A Clothes Designer Business Idea Making Millions Laura Dahl studied fashion at the NY City Fashion Institute of Technology, where she earned her master’s degree. Later on, she began working with famous designer Anne Bowen, who is renowned for her beaded clothing adorned with semi-precious stones. It was then, in 2003 that Laura Dahl decided to try to design her own beaded undershirt. Her first design was this tank-top shirt decorated with beads and semi-precious stones, which immediately drew the attention of fashion experts from Vogue and InStyle. She called her creation, the Wifebeader, and began working on 8 new...
Building a million-dollar business online is sometimes easier than one may think. Sometimes, you don’t even need a fancy degree, sound experience, or/and any other special tools and services. Sometimes, what you need to start a very successful company is just passion, desire, persistence, and … some faith in God. This story is a bright example of all of this. It’s about a monk called Father Bernard McCoy who started a very successful online store that still brings millions of revenue to his abbey… This Is How To Build A Million-Dollar Business Online From Scratch LaserMonks.com is a successful business...
Annie Safoian immigrated to the USA 30 years ago. It was hard, but she put some tough work, a slice of entrepreneurial spirit and with a pinch of luck to all this she is now living the American dream. She is the co-founder of SADA Systems – a company with expected annual revenue for 2016 of about $65 million. I found her story on !Yahoo finance and thought it would be an amazing read for our audience… And here is her startup story: How Annie Safoian Founded SADA Systems In 1987, a 32-year-old Annie Safoian moved to Los Angeles from...
Social networking has been exploding over the last several years. This is how simple ideas like Facebook and Twitter were transformed into multi-billion companies, used by people from all around the world. Many people noticed their incredible success and followed the social trend. Some of them managed to gain popularity even after the big names has already conquered the market. They focused on certain niches like picture sharing, video sharing, etc. Even some teenage entrepreneurs managed to grasp a piece of the tasty social pie. One of them, Ashley Qualls was only 14 years old, when she started her social...
Instagram is definitely one of the greatest companies of the Internet era, and its story – one of the most engaging start-up stories today. The company started by two young entrepreneurs Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger was sold to Facebook for the whooping of $1 000 000 000, just a few years after its foundation. The story of Instagram is not only a story of ‘how to start a billion dollars company and cash in’, but also it’s a story about faith, persistence, and entrepreneurship. It’s really amazing and you can see it in the following set of images, which...
Today’s world is amazing, it totally is. We live in a time of opportunities and possibilities. This story is a bright example of how a free market combined with some creativity and maybe luck can make you a multi-millionaire in a matter of months. This is the astonishing story of a young Vietnamese developer who, because of suffering from the ‘too much spare time’ syndrome, decided to write a very simple game with awful graphics… Eventually, that turned out to make him incredibly rich, because of one simple reason – people just liked it! I am talking about the fabulous...
